Stepping down as maintainer.

[svpernova09]

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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:12:22 -0500
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Subject: Homestead & Settler
From: Joe Ferguson <joe@joeferguson.me>
To: Taylor Otwell <taylor@laravel.com>
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Hi Taylor,

Hope things are well. I've just published Homestead v14.4.2 which is likely
the last release. I've resolved all the glaring issues brought up in the
past year. I think it's time to call Homestead done. It served a great
purpose really well and still continues to.

Feel free to archive these repositories. People can happily fork to their
heart's content.

Thanks for trusting me with this. I learned a lot and messed up a lot.

-- 
- Joe Ferguson
JoeFerguson.me
osmihelp.org

thanks for the ride, everyone.

[browner12]

I would be interested in taking over the project. I still believe Homestead is a great solution for local development, and want to continue the great work Joe has done over these many years.

[rayblair06]

Thank you for your contributions as the maintainer of Homestead, @svpernova09. It goes without saying that your work has made a significant impact on the Laravel community, making it easier for developers like myself to work with Laravel. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours.

[wallacio]

@svpernova09 Joe - thanks so much for your work in keeping this current for so long. I depend on Homestead for so many projects (not just Laravel); it's a one-stop shop that's been so easy to use.

Hopefully this isn't the end of Homestead, I'd love to see someone else take on maintenance of it.

[Sn0wCrack]

Don't know what to say that hasn't been said, but thank you for all the work on Homestead over the years.

It's allowed myself and everyone on my team to deliver some awesome stuff due to the simplicity and customisability of it. Adding new software to our multi-project stacks being as simple as changing a value true has been an awesome feeling, especially considering we used to run our stuff under WAMP not even 5 years ago now, it's been a world of difference.

I do hope we can see a continuation of this project within the Laravel ecosystem and I'm honestly happy to help out where I can if it means keeping this amazing project alive.

[Erulezz]

Thank you @svpernova09 for all the hard work and for maintaining it all these years. I used it a lot so again, thanks 🥇

[svpernova09]

No one panicked, right? 😅

https://github.com/svpernova09/settler

v14.1.0 base boxes for Parallels (x86_64 & aarch64/arm64) and Virtualbox (x86_64) have been released.

https://github.com/svpernova09/homestead

The main branch is updated, but there is no tag yet. If you're brave, clone it and throw your Homestead.yaml as is and vagrant up. Yell if anything breaks, then open a new issue.

[Sn0wCrack]

So what exactly has happened then @svpernova09? I'm a bit confused here.

[svpernova09]

So what exactly has happened then @svpernova09? I'm a bit confused here.

Homestead hasn't been a priority for Laravel in a long time. If users want to keep using Laravel Homestead, it will be fine for a while, as most of us know it's a pretty solid tool. Laravel could appoint a new maintainer to take over. I tried to leave things better than I found them.

If users want to continue using an up-to-date version of Homestead, they should migrate to my fork.

[Erulezz]

Homestead hasn't been a priority for Laravel in a long time.

That's something I don't understand, it's such a great development tool and I still prefer it after all these years over the newer "official" tools